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Ensuring Quality Outcomes Through Social Care Governance
Social work services are moving toward greater integration with governance. Governance arrangements are essential within the social work environment in the fields of Medical Social Work, Psychiatric Social Work, Social Welfare, Community Development, School Social Work, National Security, Family Planning, etc., to ensure quality services and statutory responsibilities of social workers to deliver the services more efficiently and effectively.
Key Principles of Care Governance
The key principles of social work care governance is to involve service users/care givers and the wider public in the development of quality care services, ensuring safe and effective services, appropriate staff support and training, striving for continuous improvement with effective polices and processes in place, and ensuring accountability and management of risk.
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Johnson, E.J. (2017). Social Work and Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2833-2
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